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2011年3月24日木曜日
2011年3月12日土曜日
Bullying-related complaints, child abuse cases hit record highs in 2010 - The Mainichi Daily News
Bullying-related complaints, child abuse cases hit record highs in 2010
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Complaints over school authorities' inappropriate responses to bullying and cases of child abuse addressed under a Justice Ministry program to remedy human rights violations both reached record highs in 2010, the ministry said Friday.
The number of bullying-related complaints jumped 51.9 percent from the previous year to 2,714 and abuse cases grew 6.3 percent to 771, it said.
"The number of cases directly reported by affected children grew. It is possible that they brought to light underlying cases," said an official of the ministry's Human Rights Bureau.
The total number of human rights violations has remained at the 20,000 level since 2004. In 2010, the total came to 21,696, up 2.3 percent from the previous year.
Cases of violence and abuse accounted for the largest number of the total human rights violations at 4,788, down 6.1 percent from 2009.
Bullying-related complaints, child abuse cases hit record highs in 2010 - The Mainichi Daily News
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Complaints over school authorities' inappropriate responses to bullying and cases of child abuse addressed under a Justice Ministry program to remedy human rights violations both reached record highs in 2010, the ministry said Friday.
The number of bullying-related complaints jumped 51.9 percent from the previous year to 2,714 and abuse cases grew 6.3 percent to 771, it said.
"The number of cases directly reported by affected children grew. It is possible that they brought to light underlying cases," said an official of the ministry's Human Rights Bureau.
The total number of human rights violations has remained at the 20,000 level since 2004. In 2010, the total came to 21,696, up 2.3 percent from the previous year.
Cases of violence and abuse accounted for the largest number of the total human rights violations at 4,788, down 6.1 percent from 2009.
Bullying-related complaints, child abuse cases hit record highs in 2010 - The Mainichi Daily News
Japan Death Row
Japan: Death row inmate, 75 today, should be granted a stay of execution
Posted: 10 March 2011
A man believed to be the world’s longest serving death row inmate, who has spent the last 43 years on death row and is 75 today, should be granted a stay of execution, removed from death row and his case reviewed, Amnesty International said today.
Amnesty International and the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN) today called on the Minister of Justice to grant a stay of execution for Hakamada Iwao in accordance with Article 479 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and for him to be taken off death row. Article 479 provides for a person to be granted a stay of execution in cases where the person is found to be suffering from mental illness.
Clare Bracey, Death Penalty Campaigner for Amnesty International UK, said:
“Having been locked away on death row for the last 43 years, with over half of that time spent in solitary confinement, and not knowing if each day might be his last, it is no wonder that Hakamada Iwao is suffering from physical and mental ill health.
“International law prohibits the execution of people with mental health issues, and Hakamada's case typifies the worst consequences of Japan's justice system
“The Japanese authorities should grant him a stay of execution in accordance with the law and review all similar cases."
Hakamada Iwao, has been on death row since 1968. He was convicted after an unfair trial of the 1966 murder of the managing director of the factory where he worked, and the man's wife and two children.
Within months of the finalisation of his death sentence, Hakamada began to show signs of seriously disturbed thinking and behaviour. The Prison authorities have refused access to Hakamada’s medical records, even to his family members and his legal representatives. Hakamada’s mental health condition continues to be of concern.
Hakamada confessed after 20 days of interrogation by police without a lawyer present but later retracted his confession saying that he had been beaten and threatened during the interrogations. One of the judges who convicted Hakamada, Kumamoto Norimichi, stated publicly in 2007 that he believed Hakamada was innocent, but that he had been outvoted in the decision.
AIUK : Japan: Death row inmate, 75 today, should be granted a stay of execution
Posted: 10 March 2011
A man believed to be the world’s longest serving death row inmate, who has spent the last 43 years on death row and is 75 today, should be granted a stay of execution, removed from death row and his case reviewed, Amnesty International said today.
Amnesty International and the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN) today called on the Minister of Justice to grant a stay of execution for Hakamada Iwao in accordance with Article 479 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and for him to be taken off death row. Article 479 provides for a person to be granted a stay of execution in cases where the person is found to be suffering from mental illness.
Clare Bracey, Death Penalty Campaigner for Amnesty International UK, said:
“Having been locked away on death row for the last 43 years, with over half of that time spent in solitary confinement, and not knowing if each day might be his last, it is no wonder that Hakamada Iwao is suffering from physical and mental ill health.
“International law prohibits the execution of people with mental health issues, and Hakamada's case typifies the worst consequences of Japan's justice system
“The Japanese authorities should grant him a stay of execution in accordance with the law and review all similar cases."
Hakamada Iwao, has been on death row since 1968. He was convicted after an unfair trial of the 1966 murder of the managing director of the factory where he worked, and the man's wife and two children.
Within months of the finalisation of his death sentence, Hakamada began to show signs of seriously disturbed thinking and behaviour. The Prison authorities have refused access to Hakamada’s medical records, even to his family members and his legal representatives. Hakamada’s mental health condition continues to be of concern.
Hakamada confessed after 20 days of interrogation by police without a lawyer present but later retracted his confession saying that he had been beaten and threatened during the interrogations. One of the judges who convicted Hakamada, Kumamoto Norimichi, stated publicly in 2007 that he believed Hakamada was innocent, but that he had been outvoted in the decision.
AIUK : Japan: Death row inmate, 75 today, should be granted a stay of execution
2011年3月8日火曜日
Cabinet OKs bills to revise parent's rights to stem child abuse - The Mainichi Daily News
The Cabinet on Friday approved bills to revise two laws on parental rights amid an increase in child abuse cases in Japan, with an eye on seeing them clear the ongoing Diet session.
The bills, if passed by parliament, would pave the way for a system that would put a limit of up to two years of suspended parental authority and give priority to childcare facility officials over the parents as part of efforts to protect children from parental abuse.
Cases presumed to require swift and flexible action include medical neglect, involving parents refusing to seek medical treatment when their children are sick, and when parents wrongfully take children away from shelters.
Under the current system, parents are stripped of custodial rights without a time limit. Childcare workers say the current law makes them hesitate to ask the courts to invalidate parental custody even if they are suspected of abusing their children.
Amid concerns that suspending custodial rights for an indefinite period of time could jeopardize the parent-child relationship, one of the bills seeks to revise the Civil Code to introduce a time limit, which would make it possible to restore the parents' custodial rights once the situation improves.
Cabinet OKs bills to revise parent's rights to stem child abuse - The Mainichi Daily News
The bills, if passed by parliament, would pave the way for a system that would put a limit of up to two years of suspended parental authority and give priority to childcare facility officials over the parents as part of efforts to protect children from parental abuse.
Cases presumed to require swift and flexible action include medical neglect, involving parents refusing to seek medical treatment when their children are sick, and when parents wrongfully take children away from shelters.
Under the current system, parents are stripped of custodial rights without a time limit. Childcare workers say the current law makes them hesitate to ask the courts to invalidate parental custody even if they are suspected of abusing their children.
Amid concerns that suspending custodial rights for an indefinite period of time could jeopardize the parent-child relationship, one of the bills seeks to revise the Civil Code to introduce a time limit, which would make it possible to restore the parents' custodial rights once the situation improves.
Cabinet OKs bills to revise parent's rights to stem child abuse - The Mainichi Daily News
2011年3月5日土曜日
Japan's Mazda told to pay family in worker suicide - Yahoo! Philippines News
TOKYO – A Japanese court on Monday ordered automaker Mazda to pay 63 million yen ($770,000) in damages to the parents of an employee who was ruled to have committed suicide over depression from being overworked.
Japan, a workaholic nation where people often take pride in suffering in silence, has been plagued with deaths of overworked people, some resorting to suicide and others dying from exhaustion.
Mazda Motor Corp. said it was disappointed that the court in the southwestern city of Kobe had rejected its assertion that the 25-year-old employee's 2007 death was not work-related. It will review the details of the ruling before deciding whether to appeal, the automaker said in a statement.
"We feel it is extremely regrettable to have lost a precious employee," the Hiroshima-based maker of the RX-8 sports car and MX-5 Miata roadster said in a statement following the ruling. "We offer our condolences from the bottom of our hearts."
Japan's Mazda told to pay family in worker suicide - Yahoo! Philippines News
Japan, a workaholic nation where people often take pride in suffering in silence, has been plagued with deaths of overworked people, some resorting to suicide and others dying from exhaustion.
Mazda Motor Corp. said it was disappointed that the court in the southwestern city of Kobe had rejected its assertion that the 25-year-old employee's 2007 death was not work-related. It will review the details of the ruling before deciding whether to appeal, the automaker said in a statement.
"We feel it is extremely regrettable to have lost a precious employee," the Hiroshima-based maker of the RX-8 sports car and MX-5 Miata roadster said in a statement following the ruling. "We offer our condolences from the bottom of our hearts."
Japan's Mazda told to pay family in worker suicide - Yahoo! Philippines News
Cabinet OKs bills to revise parent's rights to stem child abuse - The Mainichi Daily News
Cabinet OKs bills to revise parent's rights to stem child abuse
TOKYO (kyodo) -- The Cabinet on Friday approved bills to revise two laws on parental rights amid an increase in child abuse cases in Japan, with an eye on seeing them clear the ongoing Diet session.
The bills, if passed by parliament, would pave the way for a system that would put a limit of up to two years of suspended parental authority and give priority to childcare facility officials over the parents as part of efforts to protect children from parental abuse.
Cases presumed to require swift and flexible action include medical neglect, involving parents refusing to seek medical treatment when their children are sick, and when parents wrongfully take children away from shelters.
Under the current system, parents are stripped of custodial rights without a time limit. Childcare workers say the current law makes them hesitate to ask the courts to invalidate parental custody even if they are suspected of abusing their children.
Cabinet OKs bills to revise parent's rights to stem child abuse - The Mainichi Daily News
TOKYO (kyodo) -- The Cabinet on Friday approved bills to revise two laws on parental rights amid an increase in child abuse cases in Japan, with an eye on seeing them clear the ongoing Diet session.
The bills, if passed by parliament, would pave the way for a system that would put a limit of up to two years of suspended parental authority and give priority to childcare facility officials over the parents as part of efforts to protect children from parental abuse.
Cases presumed to require swift and flexible action include medical neglect, involving parents refusing to seek medical treatment when their children are sick, and when parents wrongfully take children away from shelters.
Under the current system, parents are stripped of custodial rights without a time limit. Childcare workers say the current law makes them hesitate to ask the courts to invalidate parental custody even if they are suspected of abusing their children.
Cabinet OKs bills to revise parent's rights to stem child abuse - The Mainichi Daily News
2011年3月2日水曜日
2% of Japanese girls have eating disorder: poll - The Mainichi Daily News
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nearly 2 percent of female middle school students in Japan were found having eating disorders that require professional help in a survey in 2009 and 2010, according to health ministry data made available to Kyodo News on Tuesday.
Gen Komaki who led the ministry's first full survey on the juvenile health problem said, "The number of potential sufferers could grow several-fold. The popular trend today that favors dieting could be endangering children."
The survey found that 1.9 percent of girls and 0.2 percent of boys have eating disorders and are in need of therapy or advice from doctors who have expertise in both physical and mental health.
Students trying to lose weight often use laxatives, throw up food they have eaten, skip meals and work out excessively, according to the survey led by Komaki, senior researcher with the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry.
2% of Japanese girls have eating disorder: poll - The Mainichi Daily News
Gen Komaki who led the ministry's first full survey on the juvenile health problem said, "The number of potential sufferers could grow several-fold. The popular trend today that favors dieting could be endangering children."
The survey found that 1.9 percent of girls and 0.2 percent of boys have eating disorders and are in need of therapy or advice from doctors who have expertise in both physical and mental health.
Students trying to lose weight often use laxatives, throw up food they have eaten, skip meals and work out excessively, according to the survey led by Komaki, senior researcher with the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry.
2% of Japanese girls have eating disorder: poll - The Mainichi Daily News
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